linux-kernel - [PATCH] checkpatch: Make utf-8 test --strict

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Date:	Fri, 01 Jul 2011 03:14:30 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: Make utf-8 test --strict

Some patches are sent in using ISO-8859 or even Windows codepage 1252.

Make checkpatch accept these by default and only emit the "Invalid UTF-8"
message when using --strict.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>

---

 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index b0aa2c6..313ee88 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1408,7 +1408,7 @@ sub process {
 			my $ptr = substr($blank, 0, length($utf8_prefix)) . "^";
 			my $hereptr = "$hereline$ptr\n";
 
-			ERROR("Invalid UTF-8, patch and commit message should be encoded in UTF-8\n" . $hereptr);
+			CHK("Invalid UTF-8, patch and commit message should be encoded in UTF-8\n" . $hereptr);
 		}
 
 # ignore non-hunk lines and lines being removed


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